Tape Handling & Storage

It is important to understand how to handle and store magnetic media properly as it assures optimal performance and archival life. This is extremely important in the evergrowing, data-intensive environment of today's data center. Once data is written to a magnetic tape cartridge, the value of that cartridge is magnified many times over, increasing the importance of protecting that data. When it comes time to restore a dataset from a backup tape, all other means to recover that data have already failed. The tape must work.